Location: Northern End of Delaware Avenue

Phone: (215) 928-9979

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Overall Rating (1 to 10): 2

What I’d Do To Improve the Place:

Stop making the Waiters and Waitresses perform corny little dance numbers every hour on the hour. Lose the “Body Shot” girls and just do the normal shooter sham.

 

Formerly called the Aztec Club back when "yours truly" turned 21, the Baja Beach Club loosened it’s tighty-whitey macho Italian roots and has turned the place into a brightly colored tropical oasis located on the edge of Delaware Avenue.

All roads point to the fact that Baja Beach Club saw the success of the Maui Super-Extra-Special-Bigger Than My Head-Entertainment Complex, and is trying to mimic it as best as they can. It's beyond me why they'd really want to do that since Maui has become so commercial and devoid of a theme. 

With a name like the Baja Beach Club, you shouldn't really be surprised when you enter and find palm trees and Hawaiian shirts (on the employees). Sure the place is actually a converted warehouse, but they throw up some straw above the bars, paint the place in some wild pastel colors and you're magically transported to a tropical paradise, of sorts. 

Admittedly, the Baja does have a huge dance floor and the DJ did get the crowd up and dancing. You probably won't believe this but approximately every hour, a few of the waiters and waitresses (they all have decent physiques)  get up on a small stage in front of the DJ and perform a little dance number.  I truly felt sorry for these people.  

Although beautiful and busty (things I don’t normally mind), the shot girls strut about the place nagging all single guys for body shots. I thought I was at a strip joint. The Baja version of a Body Shot: test tube filled with mixed drink, tucked into the shot girl's bikini bottom, guy drinks test tube, shot girl rubs guys head into her tummy. It's a wild scene. If you're a guy, you've got to try it; if you're a girl you really have to try it! Ha ha. Of course when the female customers see us guys get roped in to the $20 per body shot sham, they’re not going to give us the time of day, or eh, night. 

Of course the male patrons aren't the only naughty ones here. Behind one of the bars (there are 3 scattered around the place) is a horizontal metal rod suspended by heavy duty chains. I witnessed first hand a female patron being suspended from the metal rods, upside down, ankles holding her in place, girlfriends cheering her on, and the bartender pouring vodka into her mouth. What a scene, especially since a girl, with a loose top, drinking an inverted shot caused her to struggle with keeping her balance, swallowing a shot and dealing with a top coming down over her head. Now that's a girl after my own heart! Oh Behave!

You can expect pretty standard stuff when it comes to the brews on tap: Miller and Coors.  I don't think that there is any Delaware Ave bar that springs for some quality brews on tap so it's not even worth griping about. Speaking of Delaware Ave bars, some of the Baja Beach Club's neighbors are The Eighth Floor and Gotham in the case that you get bored or restless.

 

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